4th December 2020
Subject Index: An index of various subjects, taught to various levels and age groups.
Subject // Lesson // Date
Ancient Egypt & Ancient Greece // Teenagers: Architecture & Mythology // 13th March 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/03/13/teenagers-architecture-and-mythology/
Animal superlatives (longest, smallest) // Young Learners, Level 4 // 24th November 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/24/young-learners-level-4-longest-heaviest-shortest-lightest/
Apple iPhones // Adult Class, Level 3 // 14th November 2019
Apple workers in China // IELTS // 30th July 2019
April 30th Vietnam // Adult Speaking Class, level 3: April 30th // 5th April 2020
Arabian Nights // Adult Speaking Class, level 2, Part 6 24th January 2020
Area 51 // Adult Class, Level 3 // 12th November 2019
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Architecture // Adult professionals // architecture
Architecture: Burj Khalife & Willis Tower // Adult professionals. Mechanics, Part 3 // 7th Feb 2020
Architecture: giving opinions // Adult Speaking Class, level 2 // 9th April 2020
Art // Adult Class, Level 1 // 12 & 19 December 2018
Art: giving opinion // Adult Speaking Class, level 3: Art // 13th April 2020
Art: DaDa & Surrealism // Adult Speaking Class, level 3: Dali, Dada & Surrealism // 23rd April 2020
Art: types of art // Young Learners, level 4 (Dali, Alice in Wonderland) // 16th May 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/05/16/young-learners-level-4-art-for-arts-sake/
Art: Being Creative // Young Learners, level 4 // 1st May 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/05/01/young-learners-level-4-be-creative/
Bad Day – create narrative // IELTS, Lesson 3 // 19th January 2019
Banks // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 Part 2
Bonfire, Guy Fawkes // Adult Class, Level 3 // 5th November 2019
Bonfire Night // Young Learners 4 // 9th November 2019
Bonfire Night // Young Learners, Level 4 // Safety First // 29th October 2020
Boys’ Night Out // Adult Class, Level 3 // 3rd December 2019
Bristol, UK // Young Teens // 21st February 2019
Cars // Adult pros // Adult mechanics: What can go wrong ?
Castles in Europe // Adult Class, Level 1 // 2 January 2019
Character building // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3: Character development // 18th June 2020
Children: gifted // Young Learners, Level 4 // Talk show (Peter O’Toole) // 30th May 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/05/30/young-learners-level-4-what-does-the-future-hold-and-a-repeat-of-the-late-show/
Christmas for Young Learners // food, traditions and activities // 18th December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/18/young-learners-a-christmas-compendium/
Christmas in Germany & UK // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // 20th December 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/12/20/adult-speaking-class-level-2/
Cinema choice // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // 20th December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/12/20/adult-speaking-class-level-2/
Cinema choice // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2: Cinema // 9th May 2020
Cities (UK) and areas // IELTS // 31st December 2018
Clothes – types and materials // Young Learners // 11th November 20202: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/11/young-learners-level-2-i-would-go-out-tonight-but-i-havent-got-a-stitch-to-wear/
Clothes // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2: Describing clothes // 19th March 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/03/19/adult-speaking-class-level-2-describing-clothes/
Clothes – expressing opinions // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // Extended personality exercises // 20th June 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/06/20/adult-speaking-class-level-2-extended-personality-exercises/
Coffee in Viet Nam // Adult Speaking Class, level 2 // 20th December 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/12/20/adult-speaking-class-level-2/
Coffee in Saigon (exercise, idioms & dialogue) // 7th December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/07/coffee-in-sai-gon/
Complaining // Adult Class, Level 3 // 18th March 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/03/18/adult-class-level-3-sharks-and-dragons/
Computers // Adult Class, Level 1 // 20th February 2019
Corona Virus in Vietnam // IELTS 4 – 5 // Implementing precautions // 25th March 2020
Corona Virus: news from UK // Listening Exercises, Corona Special // 6th April 2020
Countries
Amazon Rain Forest // Young Learners, Level 5 // 19th October 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/10/19/young-learners-level-5-amazon-rain-forest-quiz-and-comparisons/
Australia // IELTS 5-6.5 // 21st August 2019
Germany // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Germany // 26th February 2020
Greece: land and myths // Young Learners 5 // 6th October 2019
India // IELTS: Hello, India // 24th January 2020
Japan // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2, Part 6, 25th January 2020
Poland salt mine // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // 20th December 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/12/20/adult-speaking-class-level-2/
Poland salt mine // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2
Russia // Adult Class, Level 3 // 4th December 2019
Sweden // Young Learners, Level 2 // 18th May 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/05/17/young-learners-level-2-focus-on-sweden/
Sweden // Young Learners, Level 2 // continuous verbs & home furnishings // 31st December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/31/young-learners-level-2-what-are-they-doing-in-sweden/
Switzerland // Adult Speaking Class, level 3. Theme:Travel // 11th February 2020
Taiwan // Taiwan: Listening Extra // 12th April 2020
Taiwan (four videos – WHO dodge, Tsai Ing-wen) // Taiwan: Listening Extra 12th April 2020
Around the world in 80 minutes // (Brazil, Canada, Sth Korea, Egypt) // Young Learners, Level 5 // 26th July 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/07/26/adult-speaking-class-level-1-young-learners-level-5-around-the-world-in-80-minutes/
Around the world – collecting information // (Brazil, Canada, Egypt, South Korea) // Young Learners, Level 6 // 6th January 2021: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2021/01/06/young-learners-level-6-collecting-information-making-a-presentation/
Countries (Brazil, Canada, Sth Korea, Egypt) // Young Learners, Level 2 // 1st June 2019
Countries (VN, UK, Mexico, Russia) // Young Learners, Level 3 // 7th September 2019
Countries // Young Learners, Level 5 // 27th October 2019
City itinerary project (London, Rio, Barcelona, Seoul) // Young Learners, Level 6 // 10th December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/10/young-learners-level-6-travel-journal-project/
Gather information (countries) // (Brazil, Canada, Sth Korea, Egypt) // Young Learners, Level 5 // 25th August 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/08/20/young-learners-level-5-feelings-nothing-more-than-feelings/
Guess the countries (pictures) Signs // Young Learners 4 // 22nd June 2019
Guess the music (countries) // Young Learners 5 // 27th October 2019
Cracking codes // Enigma machine // Young Learners 5 // 17th November 2019
Creative writing // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3: Storytelling // 29th March 2020
Creative writing // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3: Storytelling part 2 // 30th March 2020
Crime and punishment // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Crime & Punishment
Culture shock // Adult Class, Level 3 // 15th January 2019
Easter // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // 1st January 2020
Emotions // Young Learners 3 // 6th July 2019
English for engineers
English for engineers, mechanics, science:
https://thaypaulsnotes.com/category/adult-professionals/
Concorde // Adult professionals. Mechanics, Part 3 // 7th Feb 2020
Enigma machine // Young Learners 5 // 17th November 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/11/16/young-learners-level-5-cracking-the-enigma/
Entropy // Adult professionals. Mechanics, Part 3 // 7th Feb 2020
Environment // Adult professionals // Adult mechanics: What can go wrong ?
Friction // Adult professionals. Mechanics, Part 3 // 7th Feb 2020
Landmark 81 // Adult Professionals / Mechanics Part 2 // 23rd January 2020
Robots in industry // Adult professionals // Adult mechanics: What can go wrong ?
Shinkanshen (Bullet Train) // Adult professionals. Mechanics, Part 3 // 7th Feb 2020
Top Gear // Adult professionals // Adult mechanics: What can go wrong ?
Nikola Tesla (video) // Adult professionals. Mechanics, Part 3 // 7th Feb 2020
Turbulence // Adult Professionals / Mechanics Part 2 // 23rd January 2020
Explorers // Young Learners 5 // 10th November 2019
Family // Adult Class, Level 3 // 6th November 2019
Flea markets // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2: Gift of the gab // 10th May 2020
Food
Food (Korea, Germany, UK Christmas, Vietnam traditional) // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2, Theme: food https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/01/22/adult-speaking-class-level-3-theme-food/
Christmas food in UK // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3: food // 19th April 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/04/19/adult-speaking-class-level-3-food/
Food (healthy or snack) // Young Learners 3 // 13th July 2019
Food (Sweden) // Young Learners 2 // 18th May 2019
Food (4 countries) // Young Learners 3 // 6th July 2019
Food (Vietnamese food) // Young Teens // 27th February 2019
Food (what do you want ?) // Young Learners 2 // Review and Buster Keaton // 30th October 2020
Food (McDonalds) // Adult Speaking Class, level 2 // 20th December 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/12/20/adult-speaking-class-level-2/
Fortune telling // Adult Class, Level 1 // 30th January 2019
Fortune telling // Young Teens // 31st January 2019
Future & creative jobs // Young learners, level 4 U 7 // 30th May 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/05/30/young-learners-level-4-what-does-the-future-hold-and-a-repeat-of-the-late-show/
Hair styles // Adult Class, Level 1 // 14th October 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/10/14/adding-adjectives-increasing-interest/
Health // Young Learners 3 // 17th August 2019
Health // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Health // 27th January 2020
Hometown & neighbourhood // IELTS // My Hometown // 28th October 2020
Hotels // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Hotels // 8th February 2020
How was your day // Adult Speaking Class, level 1: How was your day ? // 5th April 2020
Idioms
Idioms & expressions // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2, Part 4
Idioms: food // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3: food // 19th April 2020
Idioms: a piece of cake // Teaching Notes // 1st June 2020
Idioms: are you pulling my leg ? // Teaching Notes // 2nd June 2020
Idioms: everyday idioms, everyday // Teaching Notes // 3rd June 2020
Idioms: part 3 extended idioms use // Teaching Notes // 4th June 2020
IELTS: Mindset Introduction // IELTS // 23rd June 2020
Insults and disrespect // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Causing offence // 3rd Feb 2020
Internet // Adult Class, Level 1 // 20th February 2019
Internet use by area and gender // Adult Class, Level 1 // 20th February 2019
Information from poster // Adult Speaking Class, Level 1: information // 16th April 2020
Jazz music // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2, Part 4
Job interviews // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Job interviews // 12th Feb 2020
Kindle // IELTS 5 – 6.5. Writing example // 15th March 2020
Letter ‘t’ // KG 1 // 5th May 2019
Loch Ness Monster // Adult Class, Level 3 // 12 November 2019
London
London // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: London 3rd March 2020
London // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: London Part 2 5th March 2020
London directions and Leytonstone // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2: London // 29th June 2020
London history and architecture // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2: London // 18th April 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/04/18/adult-speaking-class-level-2-london-an-architectural-history/
London plan an itinerary // Young Learners, Level 6 // 26th November 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/26/young-learners-level-6-london-itinerary/
London street market // Adult C, L 3 // 14 November 2019
London tourism // Adult C, L 3 // 21st November 2019
London: what to see // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2: London // 22nd May 2020
London: unusual buildings // IELTS / Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // 6th September 2020
Love and marriage // condensed lesson // 28th December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/28/love-and-marriage-the-best-bits/
Love and marriage // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // 11th January 2020 Theme: Love & marriage: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/01/11/adult-speaking-class-theme-traffic/
Love and marriage // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2. Theme: Love & marriage Part 2: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/01/12/adult-speaking-class-theme-love-marriage-part-2/
Love, marriage, children // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // 13th January 2020 Theme: Love & marriage Part 3: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/01/13/adult-speaking-class-theme-love-and-marriage-part-3/
May Day – history, myth and politics //Adult Speaking Class, Level 2: May Day // 5th May 2020
Making excuses IELTS // Speaking exercises // small talk & making excuses // 12th May 2020
Manufacturing in Vietnam // IELTS // 30th July 2019
Mobile phones // Adult Class, Level 3 // 8th January 2019
Money // Adult Class, Level 3 // 14 November 2019
Money // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2, Part 3
Murder mysteries // Adult Class, Level 3 // 12th November 2019
Olympics (London, Beijing) // Adult Professionals // 10th February 2019
Orion constellation // Teenagers: Architecture & Mythology // 13th March 2020
Personality adjectives // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3, Personality adjectives // 7th June 2020
Photography and photos // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2, Part 4
Photography and photos descriptions (advanced) // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2, // 25th April 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/04/25/adult-speaking-class-level-2-talk-about-your-friends/
Politics // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3
Presentation skills // Teenagers // 20th January 2019
Pyramids // Teenagers: Architecture & Mythology // 13th March 2020
Reading practice // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Crime & Punishment
Rolex // Adult Class, Level 3 // 14th November 2019
Shinkanshen (Bullet Train) // Adult professionals. Mechanics, Part 3 // 7th Feb 2020
Shopping
Shopping // compilation of blogs for adult classes // 14th December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/14/shopping-vocabulary-speaking-exercises-fixed-prices-fixed-expressions/
Shops and shopping // Young Learners 3 // 17th August 2019
Shop work (role-play) // Young Learners 3 // 3rd August 2019
Shopping // buying presents, Black Friday, conversation practice // Adult Speaking Class, level 2 // 20th December 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/12/20/adult-speaking-class-level-2/
Shopping // Adult Speaking Class Level 2: Deciding what to buy // 11th May 2020
Shopping, haggling, role – play // Adult Speaking Class Level 2: Going shopping // 7th April 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/04/07/adult-speaking-class-level-2-going-shopping-looking-for-a-bargain/
Shopping (role-play) // Young Learners 3 // 17th August 2019
Shopping // Adult Class, Level 3 // 14th November 2019
Signs, symbols, icons // 21st August 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/08/21/signs-symbols-and-icons-information-and-worksheet/
Small talk // Adult C, L 3 // 26th November 2019
Smoking and No Tobacco Day // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Health // 27th Jan. 2020
Solar system & space // Young Learners, Level 4 // 16th November 2019
Space & science // Young Learners, Level 4 // 6th June 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/06/06/young-learners-level-4-can-you-hear-me-major-tom/
Street crime // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3: Street crime // 23rd July 2020
Stereotypes // Adult C, L 3 // 19th August 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/08/16/adult-class-level-3-class-1-stereotypes/
Stereotypes // Adult Class, Level 3: Generally speaking // 28th April 2020:
Stories in basic English // Adult Speaking Class, level 2, Part 6 // 24th January 2020
Superheroes – Captain Vietnam // Young learners, Level 5 // 13th December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/13/captain-viet-nam-superheroes-by-super-kids/
Tallest, longest, biggest // Young Learners 5 // 10th November 2019
Technology (old) // Young Learners 5 // 17th November 2019
Tet Holiday // Adult C, L 1 // 30th January 2019
Tet Holiday // IELTS // 28th January 2019
Travel
Holiday plans (Buenos Aires, Nairobi, Copenhagen, Moscow) // A. S. C. Level 2 // 20th May 2020
Holiday projects : Bangkok, Munich, Ha Noi, Egypt, London // A.S.C. Level 3 // 9th June 20202
IELTS Project // Holiday language, prepare an advert, plan a day // IELTS // 16th June 2020
Tourism (Thailand, VN & project) // Teenagers // 20th January 2019
Traffic and travel // Adult Speaking Class. Theme: Traffic
Traffic in Vietnam // Adult C, L 3 // 25th December 2018
Travel: airport to city centre (HCM) // IELTS // 10th February 2019
Travel: On vacation // Young Learners, Level 4 U 8 // 15th June 2019: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2019/06/14/young-learners-level-4-this-is-the-best-part-of-the-trip/
Travel USA: planning // Adult Speaking Class, level 3: USA sun, surf, sand // 18th May 2020
Travel USA: 3 cities // Adult Speaking Class, level 3: San Fran, Boston, Chicago // 18th May 2020
Tuareg people // Adult Speaking Class, level 3. Theme:Travel // 11th February 2020
Turbulence // Adult Professionals / Mechanics Part 2 // 23rd January 2020
UNESCO // Young Teens // 31st January 2019
UNESCO // Young Teens // 27th February 2019
Van Heusen shirts // Adult Class, Level 3 // 14th November 2019
Vietnam
Vietnamese cities // Adult Class, Level 3 // 21st November 2019
Vietnamese places // Young Learners 5 // 27th October 2019
Vietnamese food // Young Teens // 27th February 2019
Vietnam Landmark 81 // Adult Professionals / Mechanics Part 2 // 23rd January 2020
Vietnamese law and police // Adult Class, Level 1 // 5th March 2019
Vietnam largest cave // Hang Soon Dong cave // Young Learners, Level 5 // 18th November 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/11/18/young-learners-level-5-what-are-you-doing-how-do-you-feel/
Vietnam Hang Soon Dong cave // Young Teens // 27th February 2019
Vietnam Sai Gon for kids //Young Learners 4 // 23rd November 2019
War Museum, Sai Gon // Adult Class // 17- 19th December 2019
War Remnants Museums, Sai Gon // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: War Museum
Weather: snow and floods // Beginners’ English, Part 2
Weekend plans: lies and exaggerations // vocabulary and activities // Adult Speaking Class, Level 2 // 21st December 2020: https://thaypaulsnotes.com/2020/12/21/adult-speaking-class-level-2-how-was-your-weekend/
Workplace: issues & problems // Adult Speaking Class, Level 3. Theme: Work-place problems // 5th February 2020
Yoga & exercise // IELTS writing practice // 25th April 2020